I worked for animator David Weinstein on a proof of concept shortfilm called Azureus Rising which is finally done. There are plans to make this into a feature length CG movie in the future afaik.
I was art director/prodution designer for this and created almost all the mechanical and environment designs. Character art was created by James Zhang.
Have a look and please check out the final proof of concept on

The final result came out extremely well. The designs translated quite nicely into 3d. Congrats on a beautiful and successfully finished project. I think the scorpion bot is my fav of the designs. Cool enviros too._________________http://www.annisnaeem.blogspot.com/